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Not sure I'd wait too long. Don't know that supplies will be unlimited on this one. Just a huinch... Besides, do you want to take a risk on not getting the Kenny Burrell ad for Schlitz Malt Liquor? Yeah, that's right - Burrell plays and read the copy, finishing up with "...and that's why it's Burrell's brew." Kenny Burrell was well enough known in this community to do a speaking/playing ad for Schlitz Malt Liquor on an AM R&B station. Any notions about "Soul Jazz" being a "community" music being an illusion go out the window fast when you hear that one... And let's not forget - Hopson was Charles Earland's manager for at least a while. The tune "The Mighty Burner" was named after him. And there's a few ads for local clubs that have organ music in the background. Can't tell if they're from already made albums or what, but I wondered if Earland's the man playin them? Nah, if I was you, I carpe diem on this puppy. Trust me.

Yo Bertrand - I posed your question to somebody involved w/this set and got this reply:

Dude - I heard it today, and, uh....yeah. That's putting it mildy. You get the distoted AM sound, and on top of that, WHAT seems to have subscribed to the not-uncommon practice of setting their turntables at a faster speed than 45 RPM. So this is not a disc for "record collectors" But this is it, man. This is it.

Exactly, which is why it's the "best", imo, type of "out" - that which grows the tradition from within rather than attempting to change it from without.

The station in question has a link here: http://www.desiconnectionusa.com/radio/ but it's not working. There's a buttload full of other links to other stations, though, on that site. I've not checked them out yet, so can't comment on any of them, but there they are. But the music is only part of it for me. The commercials, and the DJ patter are every bit as interesting (well, ok, almost as interesting). Like I said, the process of assimilation going on right in front of us. Check it out.

I think he did.

You think so?

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Heiner Stadler is definitely a cat worth checking out. If you ever come across this one, carpe diem: Featuring Thad Jones, Georges Adams and Lewis, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Workman, Lennie White (sic), and not a cliche in sight.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

If you're looking for something "African", try this one: Johnny Coles, Yusef Lateef, & Pat Patrick blowing in various degrees of "free" over a really smoking drum/percussion choir.

This might be my favorite Jordan side, period, all things considered. I know that he's said that it was his.

The Weston is pretty cool, imo. "Slick", but in a good way. Great charts, great playing. Electric piano on some cuts, but that's not a problem for me. Definitely a "production" album, but it ain't the meat, it's the motion...

I think it's "Savion". He used to pop up on Sesame Street back when my kids watched it. Bird & Trane, eh? Sounds cool! Know of any footage?

For years, I thought that it was Jim Seals who played the sax on "Tequilla". Come to find out, he played with The Champs (as did Dash Crofts & Glen Campbell) but after the fact. Danny Flores, say hello to Wes Montgomery. And have a shot.

1600 AM during the day, and then they switch to 920 AM at night. How/why they do that, I don't know. Rod - they say they're in Cockrell Hill. But as you've noted to me, the phone # suggests otherwise. Al - This is a totally commercial station. The owner is a cat named Rehan Siddiqi who pimps himself relentlessly through his DJs. Cat's gotta be a hustler! But the commercials are mostly for restaurants, financial advisors, real estate agents, and travel agents. Everything's in English, except for the songs. We're witnessing the first wave of assimilation here, and it's a treat for an armchair sociologist like me. Plus, the music is a gas. The music is mostly Bollywood durint the morning and early/mid afternoon, and then switches more to Hindi pop (very house oriented, it seems) once the sun starts going down. The music is, well, hey - if all you know of "Indian music" is the classical style of people like Ravi Shankar, let's just say that you're in for a surprise. Some of the beats are downright nasty, and the voices do things with mellisma and microtones that put "Western Pop" singers to shame after about a bar or two. And then there's the "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to instrumentation that you'll hear on some of these songs. There seems to be no instrument or sound that doesn't turn up eventually. How long you can listen to it is not something I'll predict, just because. But I'm finding it reason enough to listen to the radio in the car again.

...and I'm listening to the local Desi station. It's a Friday night party set, they got the shit going on, the DJs are taking live calls and shoutouts over the music, and yeah, ok, let's roll. It's all new to me, but I know a party when I hear it. This shit is jammin' for real. Then the DJ comes on with a trivia quiz. Usually on this station, the trivia questions involve something Bollywood related. But this is Friday night, and the target audience is clearly a younger set than what gets played during the day. So I'm wondering what the trivia question is going to be, whether it'll be Bollywood, or something about the Hindu rapping that's been going on or just what. Hell, I don't know. Like I said, this is all new to me. So here it comes... "What is the oldest object oriented programming language? Call us NOW at 972-XXX-XXXX!" They had a winner in less than 5 minutes. Simula. (numerous claims of Smalltalk were rebuffed) Impressive! And the party never stopped.

Harold Wheeler.

I bought a remaindered copy of Balliett's Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz and read almost all of it (skimmed in places). The guy hates hard bop, and constantly throws in such digs at the genre. I don't feel confident enough to say "fallible," but his tastes are sufficiently different from mine (I listen to lots of hard bop, for instance) that I wouldn't go by his recommendations. I like reading Balliet for his language, not for his taste. Sometimes his tastes and mine intersect, sometimes not. But his use of the language, stylized though it often is, is enough for me.

Unworthy of my vision of you Jim. Well yeah, and I did qualify it in the following sentence. Probably sounds harsher than I intend to. But still, this whole notion of guidebooks is one to which I simply cannot relate. Different strokes for different folks, I know, but I've never been one to use a map except when I'm driving. I find the online AMG site fun for discovering "obscurities" and such, but that's using it for discographical/exploratory purposes rather than using the reviews to guide my purchases & steer my interests. The reviews are not the object of the game for me, although the sound samples, when available, are. Honestly, no disrespect meant to those who use those things for such purposes. I'm just not one of them, and the whole concept frankly befuddles me. I can fully realte to Scott's purported goal of hearing everything there is to hear, but really, shouldn't we all be doing that ourselves if that's where our interests lie? Sure, you hear a lot of shit along the way, but so what? That's part of devolping a perspective, as I'm sure Scott will atttest. If you only stick to things that you know in advance are going to be "good", then you run the risk of becoming somebody who, as we malcontents like to say here in Dallas, know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

And, to complete the ensemble, a Quincy Jones theme.

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Any Eddie Palmieri solo.

With better editing, I could look like Ironsides...